An-Naml 27:71

<div class="arabic uthmani">وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هَـذَا الْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـدِقِينَ </div><p>(And they say: "When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if you are truthful") Allah said, responding to them:</p><div class="arabic uthmani">قُلْ</div><p>(Say) `O Muhammad,'</p><div class="arabic uthmani">عَسَى أَن يَكُونَ رَدِفَ لَكُم بَعْضُ الَّذِى تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ</div><p>(Perhaps that which you wish to hasten on, may be close behind you.) Ibn `Abbas said, "That which you wish to hasten on has come close to you, or some of it has come close." This was also the view of Mujahid, Ad-Dahhak, `Ata Al-Khurasani, Qatadah and As-Suddi. This is also what is meant in the Ayat:</p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هُوَ قُلْ عَسَى أَن يَكُونَ قَرِيبًا</div><p>(And they say: "When will that be" Say: "Perhaps it is near!") (17:51)</p><div class="arabic uthmani">يَسْتَعْجِلُونَكَ بِالْعَذَابِ وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمُحِيطَةٌ بِالْكَـفِرِينَ </div><p>(They ask you to hasten on the torment. And verily, Hell, of a surety, will encompass the disbelievers) (29:54).</p><div class="arabic uthmani">عَسَى أَن يَكُونَ رَدِفَ لَكُم</div><p>(may be close behind you.) means, it is being hastened for you. This was reported from Mujahid. Then Allah says:</p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى النَّاسِ</div><p>(Verily, your Lord is full of grace for mankind,) meaning, He abundantly bestows His blessings on them even though they wrong themselves, yet despite that they …

And they say: When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if ye are truthful?

They also say: "When will this promise (come to pass)? (Say) if ye are truthful."

And they (the disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) say: "When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if you are truthful?"

And they say, “When is this promise, if you are truthful?”